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Saurav Sarkar’s Biography

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Saurav Sarkar is a freelance writer based in the New York area.

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The deplorable work conditions behind Harrods' $7,000 'Ambootia Snow Mist' Darjeeling tea

The deplorable work conditions behind Harrods' $7,000 'Ambootia Snow Mist' Darjeeling tea

In 2015, after you were done gawking at the statue of Princess Di in the world's largest department store, Ha…

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Starbucks Workers Take on the South - Dissent Magazine

Starbucks Workers Take on the South - Dissent Magazine

How have organizers claimed victories in a more hostile legal and political climate? Saurav Sarkar ▪ Septembe…

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Punjabi workers in Toronto are fighting wage theft-and they're winning

Punjabi workers in Toronto are fighting wage theft-and they're winning

Arshdeep Singh, a 30-year-old Punjabi semi-truck driver in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, was left with a bl…

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Boston Starbucks Workers Have Been on Strike for 3 Weeks

Boston Starbucks Workers Have Been on Strike for 3 Weeks

At about 5:15 AM on Monday, two police officers and a handful of strikebreakers showed up with a U-Haul at th…

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Modi's Mass Muslim Detention Scheme

Modi's Mass Muslim Detention Scheme

On August 31, the right-wing Hindu Indian government labeled 1.9 million of its residents as stateless. The o…

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Three massive funds control a chunk of most media

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By Saurav Sarkar
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Saurav Sarkar Recently, FAIR ( 2/3/26 ) took a look at the owners of the biggest online media outlets. It focused on the controlling owners of those outlets, which are mostly publicly traded corporations. But a lot of the money—about $2 trillion dollars—invested in the top 50 online media outlets in the US is not the controlling owners'. Rather, it is possessed by minority institutional investors that manage assets for others. Take BlackRock, Inc., for instance.
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Three Massive Funds Control a Chunk of Most Media: Maybe that's why you might not have heard of them

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By Saurav Sarkar
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Innovation & Tech Today (7/8/22): “Together, BlackRock and Vanguard own 18% of Fox, 16% of CBS, 13% of Comcast—which owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and the Sky media group—12% of CNN, and 12% of Disney.” Recently, FAIR (2/3/26) took a look at the owners of the biggest online media outlets. It focused on the controlling owners of those outlets, which are mostly publicly traded corporations.
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Both NYC Tabloids Fought Mamdani, But Each Did It Their Way

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By Saurav Sarkar
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If there’s one thing that the institutional opinion-makers of New York’s major local tabloids, the New York Post and the Daily News, agreed on during the recent mayoral campaign, it’s that Zohran Mamdani should not be the next mayor of New York. But the way their editorial boards approached the election over the past few months vastly differed, reflecting their contrasting methods of opposing progress in New York City.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Staff writer at Mint (after freelancing)

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email, text, anything's fine!

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Google Docs, Otter AI, Google Voice, and an audio recorder app